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There's a famous claim that somebody told me from Harvard Law School, that if you have a good case you should pound the case, but if you have a bad case you should pound the table...
...collection of classics, found the book, and ensconced myself in our reading chair. Thanks to Hemingway’s lean, clean prose, images of Boulevard St. Germain and the Café des Amateurs filled my days. Stories of the writer hobnobbing with Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald on the tree-lined streets of Paris made my café au lait-deprived heart turn the pages for more. Hemingway steered me through his time in Paris at a snappy pace, without belaboring any one point. This vision, however, is Paris without Dior sunglasses and Chanel-infused...
...catchy tunes about how “life is Number One.” Sometimes it shows John C. Reilly giving tips on the best vegetables to eat. And sometimes there’s a thrilling rock opera about a bald man wanting to have sex with his 300-pound secretary. Tim and Eric are basically time travelers, bringing the comedy of the future to the present day. Give it a shot. The worst thing that could happen is a brain aneurysm.PUBLIC SCORN INDEX: 12%“Human Giant” (MTV)Thursdays, 10:30 p.m.Season Two Premiere: TBDThis...
After a postgraduate year at Exeter, the 6’3, 190-pound receiver turned down multiple offers to play football at Division I-A schools in order to join the Crimson. Used to being the featured pass-catcher, one can imagine the junior’s surprise when he entered his first collegiate training camp as the last wideout on the depth chart...
...eclectic Prabhadevi neighborhood--certainly looks like the office of a serious investment bank. But it feels more like the postcollegiate playground of a Silicon Valley start-up. Meetings seem to happen as often over cubicle walls as in boardrooms. Goldman employees come back from business trips abroad with a pound of Starbucks coffee for the office. On weekends, you'll find them building houses for the poor or taking the kids to the Entwistles' for Saturday brunch. Every Monday morning, Entwistle gathers the troops. "He calls on even the most junior people to talk," says associate Anjali Talera, "and everyone...